"This isn't about curry, Alistair": Shula Hebden-Lloyd and Iris Murdoch on Love

Altorf, Hannah Marije ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5280-747X (2019) "This isn't about curry, Alistair": Shula Hebden-Lloyd and Iris Murdoch on Love. In: Headlam, N and Courage, C, (eds.) Gender, Sex and Gossip in Ambridge: Women in The Archers. Emerald Press, pp. 89-100. ISBN 9781787699489

Abstract

This paper reflects on the divorce between The Archer’s Shula and Alistair Hebden-Lloyd. It considers in particular Shula’s main reason for the separation (‘I just don’t love you any more’) and her inability to explain any further (‘It’s just how I feel’). It does so by bringing Shula in conversation with the British philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch, who was an avid listener to the Archers. Love is for Murdoch a moral virtue, though she is also aware of its trappings. I shall use the recent scholarly debate on the love in Murdoch’s work to help Shula reflect on her claim.

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Item Type:	Book Section
Date Deposited:	27 Nov 2018 11:06
URI:	https://research.stmarys.ac.uk/id/eprint/2812
School/Department:	Department of Humanities

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